The Ultimist

On this episode I talk with PhD student Sabrina Little about her work on the role of moral exemplars and admiration in character formation. We also talk about animal ethics, classical education and much more! Sabrina Little on Twitter Academia.edu page

On this episode I talk with doctoral student and author Hilary Yancey about her dissertation on hylomorphism-the thesis that material objects are most fundamentally compounds of matter and form-and how it illuminates the problem of what relationship our bodies' parts have to us. We also get into some issues in metaphysics, medical ethics, near death experiences and Robocop! Hilary Yancey's website

On this episode I walk with Brandon Rickabaugh, a doctoral student at Baylor University, about the intersection of philosophy and spiritual formation, and then about substance dualism, hylomorphism and the 'bodily soul' view of the mind-body problem.  Brandon's website (see especially his papers "Neuroscience, Spiritual Formation, and Bodily Souls: A Critique of Christian Physicalism" and "What Does it Mean to Be a Bodily Soul?")

On this episode I talk to Calum Miller, a medical practitioner who has also completed graduate work in philosophy and biblical studies, on Bayesian reasoning and whether theism is a simple hypothesis. Calum's website Is theism a simple hypothesis? The simplicity of omni-properties (the paper we discussed)

On this episode I talk to Liz Jackson, a PhD student at the University of Notre Dame, about Pascal's famous wager on believing in God and how it might apply to John Schellenberg's famous argument from divine hiddenness against the existence of God. Liz Jackson's Website (includes a link to the paper we discussed) Stanford Encyclopedia entry on Pascal's Wager